droid, dendritic, dendriform, tree-shaped; branched, branchlike, ramose, ramous, ramiform.
trek, v. 1. travel, journey, traverse, pass over; migrate, emigrate, immigrate, transmigrate; peregrinate, roam, wander, range; tramp, march, hike, trudge, plod, rove.
-n. 2. journey, trip, voyage, sail; migration, passage, transmigration, immigration; exodus, flight, emigration, odyssey, expatriation; expedition, mission, pilgrimmage, hadj; tramp, march, hike.
trellis, n. lattice, grille, grid, fret, wattle; grate, grating, reticule; network, reticulation; latticework, grillwork, trelliswork, webwork, meshwork; interlacement, intertwinement, lacework, lacery, texture.
tremble, v. shake, quake, quiver, quaver, shudder, shiver; twitter, trill, quail, jitter; teeter, totter, dodder, fidget; shake like a leaf, quake in one's boots, quiver like a rabbit; pulsate, pulse, throb, palpitate, beat, pitapat; vibrate, oscillate, librate, rock; rattle, chatter, flutter, flitter, flit, chill; vellicate, twitch, convulse, commove; wiggle, waggle, waver, shimmy; jingle, jiggle, jangle, joggle.
tremendous, adj. 1. Informal, great, huge, grand, vast, gigantic, monstrous; enormous, large, massive, mighty, colossal, prodigious; gargantuan, towering, titanic, mammoth, elephantine, immense, giant.
2. loud, crashing, deafening, earsplitting; booming, thundering, resounding, rolling, roaring; pealing, window-rattling, crashing, enough to wake the dead.
3. dreadful, terrifying, frightening, direful; horrendous, horrible, terrible, monstrous, atrocious; ghastly, grisly, unspeakable, gruesome, outrageous, shocking; harrowing, alarming, distressing, rending, fearsome, formidable, awful.
4. Informal, extraordinary, remarkable, marvelous, out of the ordinary, astonishing, astounding, amazing; fantastic, fabulous, SI. fantabulous, SI. far-out, mind-boggling, SI. mind-blowing, supercalifragilisticexpiali-docious; wondrous, wonderful, miraculous; unusual, rare, unique, singular, uncommon; stunning, breathtaking, staggering, phenomenal.
5. inordinate, excessive, extreme, preposterous; immoderate, extravagant, exorbitant, exaggerated; unreasonable, intemperate, gross, unbounded; copious, profuse, overflowing, overmuch, lavish.
tremor, n. 1. shaking, shudder, shiver, quaver, quiver; palpitation, pulsation, pulse, throb, beat, sputter, flutter, pitter-patter, pitapat; vellication, swing, ripple, jolt, jerk; vibration, oscillation, libration, shake, rock; agitation, chatter, rattle, twitter, jitter; jingling, joggling, jiggling; palsy, twitch, tic, rictus, convulsion, the shakes, St. Vitus dance; throe, orgasm, paroxysm, spasm, fit, seizure, Pathol, jactation.
2. quake, earthquake, shock, trembler, U.S. temblor, seismic disturbance, Geol. diastrophism.
tremulous, adj. 1. trembling, shaking, quivering, quaking, quavering, shuddering, shivering; quaky, shaky, trembly, tremulant, quivery, quavery, shud-dery; rattling, chattering, vibratory, vibrative, twittering, oscillatory; spasmodic, jerky, convulsive.
2. timorous, timid, easily frightened, diffident, fainthearted; cowardly, craven, pusillanimous, Inf. yellow, weak-kneed, lily-livered; fearful, frightened, afraid, scared, Archaic, affrighted; skittish, jumpy, edgy, on edge, jittery, nervous, high-strung, panicky, panic-stricken; apprehensive, anxious, alarmed, tense, uneasy, disquieted.
trench, n. 1. excavation, cut, ditch, furrow, ridge, sulcation; fosse, moat, dike; passage, duct, course, conduit, adit; sewer, trough, gutter, channel, canal, groove, Brit, kennel, watercourse.